Every Tuesday at 4 p.m., the James Franck Institute hosts a colloquium in
RI 480 at 5640 South Ellis Avenue.
Tea is served at 3:45 during open discussion before the start of the talk.
Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance from
Ms. Anderson: zenaa@uchicago.edu or 773-702-7180.
For more information, contact our Colloquium Chair, Ka Yee Lee. She can be reached via e-mail or by calling (773) 702-7068.
| Dates |
Speakers |
Title |
| Sep. 28 |
Jianshu Cao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Host: Norbert Scherer |
"Statistical Analysis of Single Molecule Measurements" |
| Oct. 05 |
Piero Casavecchia
Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Perugia
Host: Laurie Butler |
"Crossed molecular beams reaction dynamics:
From simple (three-atom) to complex (poly-atom) reactions" |
| Oct. 12 |
Theodore Goodson, III
Chemistry Department, College of LS&A, University of Michigan
Host: Luping Yu |
"Investigations of Light Harvesting and
Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Properties in Organic Dendrimers and Branched Macromolecules" |
| Oct. 19 |
Francisco Melo
Dept. of Physics, Universidad de Santiago, Chile
Host: Tom Witten |
"A Few Aspects of the Physics of Granular Materials"
SPECIAL STUDENT SESSION:
Prof. Melo will discuss the range of experiments being done in his group at a question-and-answer session to be held in
Kersten room 206 at 2:30 Wednesday, October 20.
The session is for JFI graduate students and physical science undergraduates. See http://jfi.uchicago.edu/~tten/Chile/ for further information.
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| Oct. 26 |
Amnon Aharony
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Host: Leo Kadanoff |
"What is really measured in the mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm interferometer?" |
| Nov. 02 |
Marsha I. Lester
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
A Closs Lecture
Host: Laura Ruth McCunn |
"Signficant OH Radical Reactions in the Atmosphere: A New View" |
| Nov. 09 |
Rui-Rui Du
Dept. of Physics, University of Utah
Host: Woowon Kang |
"Microwave-Induced Zero Resistance States
in a 2D Electron Gas" |
| Nov. 16 |
Cancelled
Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho
Department of Physics, Ohio State University
Host: Kathy Levin |
Cancelled
"The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases" |
| Nov. 23 |
Alexander Efros
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
Host: Philippe Guyot-Sionnest |
"Optical Properties of Nano-scale Semiconductors (Nanocrystals, Nanorods and Nanowires)" |
| Nov. 30 |
Tom Witten
James Franck Institute
University of Chicago
Host: Ka Yee Lee |
"Deformability, Interpenetration and Fragility: How Soft Matter Correlates" |
| Dec. 07 |
None Scheduled
University/Affiliation
Host: None |
"None Scheduled" |
